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Describe what happens when the rock on the top of a hill is pushed.

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The precise point is that gravitational energy is potential energy unless it makes something move, and then the energy is converted to kinetic energy, no work can be done. So a big rock at the top of a hill has no kinetic energy. Its only when it rolls down that work is done, and this can be converted to useful energy.

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